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Young. — Like the adults, but greener, and the yellow of the 
throat more diffused and extending over the fore-neck and 
upper breast. 
Winter Plumage. — Does not differ appreciably from the summer 
plumage. 
Note— The Wocid-Warbler is the .largest of the three species which 
breed in Great Britain, and is brighter in colour than the Willow- Warbler 
or the Chiffchaff, neither of which have such a dear yellow eyebrow or 
throat, the latter contrasting markedly with the white breast and abdomen. 
The first, or bastard, primary is shorter than the primary-coverts, and 
measures only o’3 to 0-4 inch. The second primary is always longer 
than the fifth. 
Range in Great Britain. — A summer visitor to most parts of 
England and Wales, and also found over the greater part of 
Scotland, having been seen in Caithness and in the Outer 
Hebrides, on North Uist. The most northerly breeding place 
yet recorded in our islands is the south-east of Sutherlandshire, 
where it is said to nest by Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown. 
In Ireland it is only known as a rare visitor, but doubtless 
breeds in certain parts of the country. 
Range outside the British Islands. — -Bound over the greater part 
of Europe in summer, but, to a certain extent, local in its dis- 
tribution. Thus it has never been found in Norway, but 
occurs in Sweden up to the vicinity of Upsala, is common in 
the Baltic Provinces, and extends to Finland, and even to the 
neighbourhood of Archangel. Its eastern limit in Russia 
appears to be the district of Kazan, but further south it has 
been found in Lenkoran. In Turkey it also breeds, but is 
only a migrant in Greece, Asia Minor, and Palestine. In 
Italy it nests on the mountains of the northern and central 
provinces, but is principally known as a spring migrant to that 
country. The same may be said regarding Spain, but in Por- 
tugal the species is almost unknown, though Mr. Tait says 
“ there is one in the Lisbon Museum, obtained at Barranhos ” 
(Ibis, 1887, p. 92). It nests sparingly in North-eastern Africa. 
The winter home of the Wood-Warbler appears to be in 
North-eastern Africa, but it also winters in Western Africa, 
having been procured at the Gold Coast by Captain Shelley 
and Mr. T. E. Buckley. 
